Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 6:06 PM EST for Greene County, Indiana. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1997, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Bloomfield, IN | |
| Mar 28, 7:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Bloomfield, IN |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIND 282309 RRA SVRIND INC055-290015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 606 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA ...GREENE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ENTIRE GREENE COUNTY UNTIL 7PM EST. THE STORM WAS PRESENTLY OVER LINTON AND WILL MOVE TO BE NEAR WORTHINGTON BY 615 PM EST. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE PROBABLE WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS TALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BPRUITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Putnam | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 5:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Vigo | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 56 min |
| Mar 28, 6:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Clay, Vigo | 63 min |
| Mar 28, 6:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | IND | Marion | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 28, 6:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 6:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Knox | 69 min |
| Mar 28, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Tipton | 51 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.